27–29 July 2016 Polish Days Are Part of the 16

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27–29 july 2016 Polish Days are part of the 16. T-Mobile New Horizons IFF

festival organizers: contact details: Roman Gutek – Festival Director t-mobile new horizons international film festival Joanna Łapińska – Artistic Director, Head of Polish Days 1 zamenhofa str. Monica Semczyk – Polish Days Coordinator 00-153 warsaw Jan Naszewski – Programming Advisor poland Urszula Pogorzelska, Franz Jud, Filip Grabowski – Guest Services tel.: +48 22 530 66 40 Lila Feduniak – Hospitality www.nowehoryzonty.pl Polish Days Co-Organizers (Polish Film Institute): Magdalena Sroka – General Director of Polish Film Institute contact during polish days: Katarzyna Mazurkiewicz – Head of International Relations, Polish Film Institute Monica Semczyk Olga Domżała – Film Sales Support & Pr Manager, Polish Film Institute [email protected] tel. +48 536 179 204 special thanks to: www.nowehoryzonty.pl/polishdays Tomasz Dąbrowski, Anna E. Dziedzic (Film Commission Poland), Anna Spisz, Michał Kosmala (Mazovia-Warsaw Film Commission), Natalia Stysło, Rafał Bubnicki (Wrocław Film Commission), Paweł Potoroczyn, Grzegorz Skorupski (Adam Mickiewicz Institute), Malwina Czajka (Toya Studios), Wojciech Kabarowski, Magdalena Widuch (ColorOffOn Film), Marlena Łukasiak (Polish Cultural Institute London), Anna MacDonald (London Film Academy), Nadia Dresti, Markus Duffner (Locarno Film Festival), Kristina Trapp (EAVE), Irena Gruca-Rozbicka, Małgorzata Stasiak (FilmPro), Michał Klimkiewicz, Katarzyna Grynienko, Anna Franklin (Film New Europe), Jolanta Tokarczyk, Ewa Kowalska (Film & TV Kamera), Michał Weksler, Anna Kaczmarek, Katarzyna Kucia, Joanna Staros (SNH). thank you! Polish Days Programme wednesday, 27 july participants arrivals 2.30 pm – 5.30 pm Study Trip in Wrocław organized by the Wrocław Film Commission (foreign producers and film funds have priority – please sign up at [email protected] by the 25th July 12:00 noon) LEAVING FROM PURO HOTEL AT 2.30 PM SHARP! 2.30 pm – 5.30 pm Pitching Training (for Polish participants of Pitching and Works in Progress) – with David Pope, Patrick Fischer and Aleksandra Leszczyńska (Puro Hotel, 6 Włodkowica St.) 7.00 pm Producers Meeting (Garden of Ossolineum, 37 Szewska St.) by invitation only 8.00 pm Welcome Grill Party (Garden of Ossolineum, 37 Szewska St.) thursday, 28 july

9.00 am Screening of Knives Out, 90’ – New Horizons Cinema 5 10.45 am – 1.45 pm Pitching (10 projects) – New Horizons Cinema 5 1.45 pm Lunch hosted by Gdynia Film Festival (Puro Hotel’s Garden, 6 Włodkowica St.) 3.00 pm – 5.00 pm Sound design workshop. Case study: All These Sleepless Nights and TOYA Studios (Puro Hotel conference room) – limited space – please sign up at [email protected] 3.00 pm Screening of Photon, 107’ – New Horizons Cinema 5 5.00 pm Screening of The Last Family (Ostatnia Rodzina), 124’ – New Horizons Cinema 5 – FOR FOREIGN GUESTS ONLY 3.30 pm – 7.00 pm One-on-One Meetings (Puro Hotel’s Garden, 6 Włodkowica St.) 8.00 pm Reception (Uff, 1a Nankiera St.) 11.30 pm Happy Hours (Industry Section – Arsenal Festival Music Club, 9 Cieszyńskiego St.)

friday, 29 july 9.00 am Screening of Communion (Komunia), 72’– New Horizons Cinema 5 10.45 am – 1.45 pm Screening of Works in Progress – New Horizons Cinema 5 1.45 pm Lunch (Puro Hotel’s Garden, 6 Włodkowica St.) 3.00 pm Screening of The Erlprince (Królewicz Olch), 101’ – New Horizons Cinema 5 – FOR FOREIGN GUESTS ONLY 5.00 pm Screening of Waves (Fale), 78’ – New Horizons Cinema 5 3.30 pm – 7.00 pm One-on-One Meetings (Puro Hotel’s Garden, 6 Włodkowica St.) 8.00 pm Closing Reception (Muzeum Architektury / Museum of Architecture, 5 Bernardyńska St.) 11.30 pm Happy Hours (Industry Section – Arsenal Festival Music Club, 9 Cieszyńskiego St.)

New Horizons Cinema is located on 19a-21 Kazimierza Wielkiego St.

3 polish days Polish Days Partnernship with First Look of Locarno IFF / EAVE scholarship /Toya Studios Sound Design Workshop

Polish Days Partnership with First Look of Locarno International Film Festival Polish Days Partnership with EAVE scholarship Locarno’s works in progress sidebar, designed as a springboard for the films of the EAVE and the Polish Film Institute are joining forces for a new partnership that will offer future, will be focusing this year on Polish Cinema, one of Eastern Europe’s most thriving a scholarship for one Polish producer and project for the EAVE 2017 Producers film industries. The producers of the selected projects will attend the Festival and Workshop, presented during the Polish Days awards ceremony on July 29th 2016. Recent present their work to industry professionals, with the aim of facilitating completion and Polish projects developed at EAVE such as United States of Love (directed by Tomasz distribution of their product. Wasilewski) received a Silver Bear at Berlinale 2016 and The Here After by Magnus During the Industry Days the films in post-production will be screened for sales agents, von Horn screened in Directors Fortnight in Cannes 2015. EAVE is extremely delighted buyers, programmers and postproduction support fund representatives attending and could not imagine a better platform for this cooperation than the New Horizons Locarno. International Film Festival, renowned for presenting uncompromising, innovative and The initiative, organized in collaboration with the Polish Film Institute and with the original cinema from all over the world. support of Fundacja Polskie Centrum Audiowizualne boasts, this year, a jury composed by Kerem Ayan (Istanbul International Film Festival), Cameron Bailey (Toronto International Film Festival) and Bero Beyer (International Film Festival Rotterdam) that will hand out the First Look award on August 8 sponsored by Cinelab Romania worth 65,000 euros in post-production services, and an award offered by Le Film Français in advertising worth 5,500 euros.

13 Summers Under the Water – Wiktoria Szymańska Birds are Singing in Kigali – Joanna Kos-Krauze,Krzysztof Krauze Toya Studios Sound Design Workshop. The Butler (Kamerdyner) – FIlip Bajon All These Sleepless Nights and TOYA Studios. Day of Chocolate – Jacek Piotr Bławut Jan Passeman (sound designer), Katarzyna Szczerba (set sound / sound editor) and the I’m a Killer (Jestem Mordercą) – Maciej Pieprzyca director Michal Marczak will explain their creative thought process of using extensive ADR, Zgoda – Maciej Sobieszczański full sound reconstruction and over ninety tracks of music to create a unique soundscape that seamlessly blends in from the subjective to the objective and from dream to reality. “Locarno’s First Look joins forces with Polish Days in Wrocław, to highlight one of Eastern Europe’s most thriving film industries on both of these springboards for the newest Date: 28 July 2016, Thursday productions and launching their international careers. The 2 events will present a total of Hour: 3 p.m. 13 works in progress with only 2 being presented in both Festivals, aiming to attract the Place: Hotel Puro attention of Sales Agents and Festival Programmers.” Guests: Jan Passeman (sound designer), Katarzyna Szczerba (sound editor), Nadia Dresti, Locarno’s Vice Artistic Director and Head of International Michal Marczak (director), Marta Golba (producer)

First Look on Polish Cinema (August 6 – 8)

Locarno’s works in progress sidebar, designed as a springboard for the films of the future, will be focusing this year on Polish Cinema, one of Eastern Europe’s most thriving film industries. The producers of the selected projects will attend the Festival and present their work to industry professionals, with the aim of facilitating completion and distribution of their product. During the IndustryFirst Look on Polish Cinema (August 6 Days the films in post-production will be sc–reened 8) for sales agents, buyers, programmersFirst Look on Polish Cinema (August 6 and postproduction support fund representat– 8) ives attending Locarno. The initiative, organized in collaboration with the Polish Film Institute and with the support of Fundacja Polskie Centrum Audiowizualne boasts, this year, a jury composed by Locarno’s works in progress sidebar, designed as a springboard for the films of the Kerem Ayan (IstanbulLocarno’s works in progress sidebar, designed as a springboard for the films of the future, will International be focusing Film this year Festival), on Polish Cameron Cinema, Bail one ey of (Toronto Eastern Europe’sInternational most Film Festival) andfuture, thriving Bero will film Beyer be industries. focusing (International this The year producers Film on Polish Festival of Cinema, the Rot selected terdam) one of projects Eastern that will will Europe’s hand attend outmost the the First Look awardthriving Festival and present their work to industry professionals, with the aim of facilitating on film August industries. 8 sponsoredThe producers by Cinelab of the Romania selected w projects orth 65,000 will attend euros the in post-productionFestival and present their work to industry professionals, with the aim of facilitating completion and distribution of their product. During the Industry Days the films in services, and an award offered by Le Film Français in advertising worth 5,500 euros.completion and distribution of their product. During the Industry Days the films in post-production will be screened for sales agents, buyers, programmers and post- postproduction support fund representatives attending Locarno.-production will be screened for sales agents, buyers, programmers and post - production support fund representatives attending Locarno.The initiative, organized in collaboration with the Polish Film Institute and with the The initiative, organized in collaboration with the Polish Film Institute and with the support of Fundacja Polskie Centrum Audiowizualne boasts, this year, a jury support composed of by Fundacja Kerem First Ayan Look Polskie (Istanbul 2016 Centrum official International Audiowizualne selection: Film Festival), boasts, this Cameron year, a Bailey jury composed(Toronto International by Kerem Ayan Film (Istanbul Festival) International and Bero Beyer Film (International Festival), Cameron Film Festival Bailey (Toronto 13 SUMMERS International UNDER Film THE Festival) WATER and Bero – Wiktoria Beyer (International Szymańska Film Festival (Toronto Rotterdam) International that will hand Film out Festival) the First and Look Bero award Beyer (International on August 8 sponsored Film Festival by BIRDSRotterdam) Cinelab Romania wor ARE SINGING that will IN KINGALIth 65,000 euros in in post hand out – the Joanna First Look Kos-Krauze- award production services, and an award on & Krzysztof August 8 sponsored Krauze by Cinelab Romania worth 65,000 euros in in post-production services, and an award offered by Le Film Français in advertising worth 5,500 euros. THE BUTLERFirst Look (Kamerdyner)2016 official selection – Filip Bajon: offered by Le Film Français in advertising worth 5,500 euros. First Look 2016 official selection: DAY OF CHOCOLATE – Jacek PiotrWiktoria Szymańska Blawut I’M A KILLER (Jestem mordercą ) – MaciejWiktoria Szymańska Pieprzyca 4 polish days 13 SUMMERS UNDER THE WATER Joanna Kos - -Krauze & Krzysztof Krauze 13 SUMMERS UNDER THE WATER ZGODA – Maciej SobieszczaJoanna Kos- ń-skiKrauze & Krzysztof Krauze BIRDS ARE SINGING IN KINGALI - Filip Bajon BIRDS ARE SINGING IN KINGALI - Filip Bajon THE BUTLER (Kamerdyner) Jacek Piotr Blawut- Initiated in 2011, First Look presentsTHE BUTLER (Kamerdyner) films in post-production Jacek Piotr Blawut- from a different country each year, among which the successfulDAY OF CHOCOLATE Sand Storm by- Elite Maciej PieprzycaZexer (Israel, 2015), DAY OF CHOCOLATE - The Second Mother by Anna Muylaert (Brazil, 2014) and ToMaciej Pieprzyca Kill a Man by Alejandro

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Joanna Łapińska Head of Polish Days, Artistic Director of T-Mobile New Horizons IFF

Welcome to Polish Days! For several years now, we’ve shared with you different faces of Polish cinema and established a networking forum for Polish and international film industry professionals. Each year, we hear how important Polish Days has become for many of you, which obviously delights us. It also reinforces our belief that we make a genuine contribution to helping you, which is the greatest compliment of our efforts. It is with great pleasure, then, that I invite you to this year’s screenings of Polish films and meetings with filmmakers. I expect you are familiar with some of the directors presenting their films at Polish Days 2016 because they have been with us before. We’re thrilled to see their latest projects. Polish cinema has recently experienced fot. Ania Jochymek dynamic growth, and we’re happy to also present new directors to you. Polish Days would not be possible without the help of our partners. Thank you all for being with us. The Polish Film Institute has been with us from the start. We are grateful for the support of the city of Wrocław, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, T-Mobile, as well as the National Audiovisual Institute, Film Commission Poland, Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission, Wrocław Film Commission, Coloroffon Film, Toya Studios, First Look of Locarno Film Festival, EAVE and Festivalscope. What a pleasure and privilege it has been to prepare this event in such great company. I hope you’ll enjoy this celebration of Polish cinema, filled with excellent, intense and fruitful sessions at Polish Days! I wish you all a great time during our Polish Days! Joanna Łapińska Head of Polish Days / Artistic Director of T-Mobile New Horizons IFF

Magdalena Sroka General Director of the Polish Film Institute

Ladies and Gentlemen, This year marks the fifth edition of Polish Days, the top industry event of the T-Mobile New Horizons IFF. This joint initiative of the Polish Film Institute and the festival team has become one of the most interesting events dedicated to promoting Polish cinema and showcasing film projects at all stages of production. The importance of Polish Days for the international promotion of Polish cinema cannot be overstated. We are happy to see so many of you attend this event every year and participate in screenings of Poland’s latest film projects. I hope that Wrocław, the European Capital of Culture 2016, along with Polish filmmakers will encourage you to return next year. fot. Marcin Kułakowski The fifth edition of Polish Days will feature special screenings of several completed Polish films, as well as over a dozen projects currently in development or in production. The Polish film industry is developing rapidly thanks to the energy of young and emerging filmmakers. I encourage you to discover new talented Polish film artists and discuss the projects with their respective creators. I hope that you find the films screened in Wrocław appealing on both the artistic and the production level. Enjoy your experience with the latest in Polish cinema.

Magdalena Sroka General Director of the Polish Film Institute

5 polish days completed films

Knives Out Photon The Last Family Ostatnia Rodzina

Przemysław Wojcieszek 7 Norman Leto 8 Jan P. Matuszyński 9

Communion The Erlprince Waves Komunia Królewicz Olch Fale

Anna Zamecka 10 Kuba Czekaj 11 Grzegorz Zariczny 12

6 polish days GENRE: Drama DIRECTOR: Przemysław Wojcieszek PRODUCER: Agata Walkosz Knives Out PRODUCTION COMPANY: CHŁOPIEC PTAK I ANIOŁ PRODUCTION YEAR: 2016 BUDGET: 20 000 EUR WORLD PREMIERE: T-Mobile New Horizons IFF WORLD SALES: Open PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Przemysław Wojcieszek CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Przemysław Wojcieszek, tel. + 48 513 067 333

Six twenty something year olds meet at a lakeside summer house. This is their first time getting together Przemysław Wojcieszek since high school. Some of them have started careers, while others have not. Some of them enjoy the pleasures in life, while others vent their hidden frustrations. The seventh character is a young Ukrainian Polish film and theatre director and named Solomia who works at the same company as one of the evening’s protagonists, Igor. Solomia is an screenwriter. He studied Polish at the outsider and is at times an object of hatred on the part of Hubert, who persuades others, drunk and lost, to Jagiellonian and Wrocław Universities. take part in an act of violence against the girl. Wojcieszek authored the script to Witold Adamek’s filmMonday , as well as all of Director’s statement: his own films; his directorial debut came It’s the only film dealing with the rise of nationalism and xenophobia in today’s Poland. It was produced independently as all in 1999 with Kill Them All. He received film institutions in Poland are already taken over by the far right. The New Horizon screenings are the film’s world premiere. the ‘Polityka’ magazine Passport (promising young artist award) in the film category. In 2004 he debuted as a playwright and theater director with the play Made in Poland. His films ThePerfect Afternoon, Made in Poland and Secret screened at Berlinale.

CHŁOPIEC PTAK I ANIOŁ – The company was established in 2015 It’s aim is to independently produce feature films with a strong political and social context.

7 polish days GENRE: Docudrama DIRECTOR: Norman Leto PRODUCER: Daniel Markowicz Photon PRODUCTION COMPANY: Lightcraft PRODUCTION YEAR: 2016 BUDGET: 1 600 000 EUR WORLD SALES: Open WORLD PREMIERE: Open PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Daniel Markowicz, Norman Leto, Piotr Galon CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Daniel Markowicz, [email protected]

Photon is inspired by David Deutsch’s bestseller, “Beginning of Infinity” which is a summary of the human knowledge of Norman Leto life and evolution. The film shows what we know about the creation of matter. The first partThe ( Beginning) focuses on the creation of matter, stars and the planets. Next, the story goes on to the second part (Life). The narrator explains what An artist, self-educated in the field of we know about the creation of life. Thanks to an eloquent example of a pensioners family (Emilia and Wojciech), the film video, film and new media. Norman Leto’s explains causes of such phenomena as alcoholism or domestic violence. The last chapter is the story of a TV channel which debut solo exhibition took place in the is being watched by the mentioned family (with astonishment because of the topics). The TV channel is about the future Centre of Contemporary Art in Warsaw of human kind. The extremely plastic story ends with a physician’s predictions about the apocalypse. This gives perfect in 2007. He worked with the director symmetry to the first scenes of the film that show today’s model of the big bang at the beginning of time. Krystian Lupa on Factory Two, where Director’s statement: his job was to prepare video sequences Photon will summarize human knowledge of the universe. I do not care about excessive poetic pathos (like Tree of Life) shown during the performance. From 2009-2010, Norman Leto or about achieving the warm documentary tone of the BBC series Life, which is packed with special effects foreshadowing devoted himself to residency in New York in order to complete his the contents. The story will conclude by showing the currently operating predictions about the end of time and space as we autobiographical novel “Sailor”. Simultaneously, he completed a full- know them today. This will create a fine symmetry with the first part dealing with the space-time origins. length film with the same title. Fully financed by the author, the film was well received at the 10th Era Nowe Horyzonty Film Festival.

Lightcraft –commercial, broadcast and feature film production and post-production company founded in 1997. We have worked successfully on more than 1500 commercials, 300 music videos and over 15 feature films for international clients and some of the world’s biggest film studios, including 20th Century Fox and Lions Gate. Our core strengths are complemented by a solid 3D department and unique in-house high-end graphic tools.

8 polish days GENRE: Drama DIRECTOR: Jan P. Matuszyński PRODUCERS: Leszek Bodzak, Aneta Hickinbotham The Last Family PRODUCTION COMPANY: Aurum Film PRODUCTION YEAR: 2016 BUDGET: 1 400 000 EUR WORLD SALES: New Europe Film Sales WORLD PREMIERE: Locarno IFF 2016 (Main Competition) Ostatnia Rodzina PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Jan Naszewski, Leszek Bodzak, Jan P. Matuszyński CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Jan Naszewski, [email protected], +48 600 173 205 Leszek Bodzak, [email protected], +48 504 275 800

Beksiński is a gentle man with arachnophobia, despite his hardcore sexual fantasies and his fondness for Jan P. Matuszyński painting disturbing dystopian works. Beksiński is a family man who wants only the best for his loving wife Zofia, neurotic son Tomasz and the couple’s aging mothers. His daily painting to classical music eventually Born in 1984. Jan graduated in Film pays off and he makes a name for himself in contemporary art. Good Catholic woman Zofia tries to hold Directing from the Radio and TV the family together, but troubled son Tomasz proves to be a handful with his violent outbursts and suicidal Department of the University of threats. Their relief is brief when he starts dating women and becomes a radio presenter and movie Silesia in Katowice and completed the translator, and the concerned parents must be on constant watch to prevent their son from hurting himself. Documentary Course at the Wajda School. But Beksiński never believed that family life would always be sunshine and rainbows. As he tapes everything His films such as15 Years of Silence, with his beloved camcorder, the 28-year Beksiński saga unfolds through paintings, near-death experiences, Afterparty, and Heaven have been dance music trends and funerals... screened and won prizes at numerous festivals in Poland and abroad. Jan P. Matuszyński is most recognized for his documentary Deep Love Director’s statement: (Best Documentary Award at the 36th IFF in Moscow, the Silver Horn Far from being a classic biopic, The Last Family is a darkly humorous story about strong family ties. About peculiar love, award for Best Feature Documentary Film at the 54th Kraków FF and marked by death, which lurks everywhere – it is present through Zdzisław’s paintings; through music, beloved by his son more). The Last Family will be his feature film debut. Tomasz; the disease, which afflicts his wife Zofia. It is also a story about people who experience their lives as an explosive mix of ideas taken from cinema, art, music and everyday reality. It shows how disappointment with life can become the worst nightmare. Finally, it is a movie about artistic nonfulfillment – about a family formed and destroyed by art. Having full access to Beksiński family archives allowed us to create a movie that will paint an extremely realistic picture of the family. I wanted to shoot a complete film, meaningful and significant, unforgettable thanks to the utterly realistic performances by best Polish film actors with international experience.

Aurum Film – a company specializing in film and television production. Currently, we mainly produce feature films, but also documentary films, commercials, promotional and educational films. Aurum Film cooperates with nationwide TV stations – public and private. We are developing projects in Poland as well as abroad and working with specialists at all stages of film production. The company has its own film equipment such as the Arri Alexa RAW XT XR Drive with accessories, Sony PMW-F5 Recorder RAW with accessories, O’Connor ripods, a set of 9 ZEISS Ultra Prime LDS lenses, Arri Alura 18-80 lens and also Avid 7 Media Composer Nitris DX.

9 polish days GENRE: Documentary DIRECTOR: Anna Zamecka PRODUCERS: Anna Wydra, Anna Zamecka, Zuzanna Król, Hanka Kastelicova, Izabela Łopuch Communion PRODUCTION COMPANY: Otter Films, Wajda Studio, HBO Europe PRODUCTION YEAR: 2016 WORLD SALES: Chat&Doce Komunia WORLD PREMIERE: Locarno IFF 2016 (Semaine de la Critique) PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Anna Zamecka, Anna Wydra CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Anna Wydra, [email protected], tel. +48 609 841 445, Anna Zamecka, [email protected]

When adults are ineffectual, children have to grow up quickly. Ola is 14 and she takes care of her Anna Zamecka dysfunctional father, autistic brother and a mother who lives apart from them and is mainly heard the phone. Most of all she wants to reunite a family that simply doesn’t work - like a defective TV set. She lives Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. She in the hope of bringing her mother back home. Her 13 year old brother Nikodem’s Holy Communion is a studied Journalism, Anthropology and pretext for the family to meet up. Ola is entirely responsible for preparing the perfect family celebration. Photography in Warsaw and Copenhagen. Communion reveals the beauty of the rejected, the strength of the weak and the need for change when She completed the Dok Pro Documentary change seems impossible. This crash course in growing up teaches us that failure is not final. Especially Programme at the Wajda School. when love is in question. Communion is her full-length debut.

Director’s statement: Having met Ola, Nikodem and their father I knew I wanted to make a film: about the strength of unconditional family love and the bonds forever securing it. In a cramped flat – where everything gets lost, deteriorates or falls to pieces - I saw three people so connected that a mere gesture from one of them led to an avalanche of reactions: anger, fear and concealed emotions. To capture this throng of objects and feelings the camera had to become the fourth family member.

Otter Films – Warsaw-based company producing both fiction and documentary films. Most of projects are international co-productions shot all over the world. Beginning 2016 premiered Zud, fiction debut by Marta Minorowicz on Berlinale. HBO is the premium television programming subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. In EuropeHBO offers programming to subscribers in nineteen countries. HBO Europe is an award-winning producer of documentaries and series. Wajda Studio was founded in 2011 by two directors Andrzej Wajda and Wojciech Marczewski. Thanks to the close co-operation with the Polish Film Institute Wajda Studio produced over 80 documentaries and short features.

10 polish days GENRE: Drama DIRECTOR: Kuba Czekaj PRODUCER: Ewa Jastrzębska The Erlprince PRODUCTION COMPANY: Munk Studio-Polish Filmmakers Association PRODUCTION YEAR: 2016 WORLD SALES: Open Królewicz Olch PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Kuba Czekaj CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Kuba Czekaj, [email protected]

The Erlprince is the story about an exceptionally gifted fourteen-year-old Boy who has just started studying Kuba Czekaj physics at university. He is working on the theory of parallel worlds, which he initially believes to be linked by light. He has an extraordinary mind and a wounded soul, which his authoritarian Mother, who steers his Born in Wrocław in 1984. Screenwriter life, is incapable of healing. Then a Man appears in their lives and, as the Boy passes from the hands of the and Director. Graduated in directing Mother into his care, a new order is established. Their torturous road forms a bond between the three central from the Krzysztof Kieslowski Radio and characters, but their shared happiness is not to last long. Approaching a solution to the problem of the Television Faculty at the University of passage between the worlds, the Boy initiates a journey, setting his life on the scales… Silesia in Katowice in 2010 and from the Development Lab Feature Programme at Director’s statement: the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing in Warsaw in 2011. Like my earlier works, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark Room and Twist and Blood, the story is told from a child’s perspective, He received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National identifying both formally and dramaturgically with the sensitivities of the young protagonist. The road he takes from light Heritage. Director, screenwriter of two short features Don’t be Afraid to death will be echoed in the film. Two parts. Bright, with a luminosity encircling the actors the key. With vivid, succulent, of the Dark Room and Twist and Blood, both of which have received hyperreal nature and interiors permeated by rays of sunshine rebounding from windows and mirrors. With light as the numerous awards. essence of the first part of the story, another actor, endowing rhythm; from time to time, will veil what is happening as rays of brightness are released straight into the camera’s eye… All of which will gradually pass over to the dark side, to death, to the gloom of the forest, the life of the wild animals. In the second half, it is the colors of the earth and of decay which will predominate, a twilight dimness, the light delicately and subtly handled. The boy’s visions, corresponding to Caravaggio’s paintings, will anticipate this. The progression through the two parts delineates an interesting and, I hope, original direction for the evolving of the image. It offers me the possibility of unfolding an ambiguous tale balanced between the probable and the unreal.

Munk Studio – operates within the structure of the Polish Filmmakers Association, produces short and full-length debut films. Young artists who are seeking to make their first film can depend on Munk Studio for support and guidance during the entire process, from the development of their project, throughout its production under fully professional conditions, to the widest possible promotion of the finished product.

11 polish days GENRE: Drama DIRECTOR: Grzegorz Zariczny PRODUCER: Ewa Jastrzębska Waves PRODUCTION COMPANY: Munk Studio – Polish Filmmakers Association PRODUCTION YEAR: 2016 Fale WORLD PREMIERE: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Main Competition) PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Grzegorz Zariczny CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Grzegorz Zariczny, [email protected]

For Ania and Kasia adulthood is just around the corner. They’re in training with a hairstylist and their future Grzegorz Zariczny seems bright. Kasia is perhaps more skillful than Ania, who can’t get the hang of doing perms; but the latter also suffers from a lack of understanding at home, although neither has very harmonious relations with her Born in 1983, Kokotów, Poland. Attended parents. The small hair salon in the Kraków suburb of Nowa Huta and the deserted prefab housing complex Jerzy Ridan’s film workshops while in where it’s located bear witness to seemingly mundane yet fundamental moments that occur between a high school in the Nowa Huta suburb carefree childhood and the complication and compromise of being an adult. of Kraków. In 2005–12 he studied film direction at the Faculty of Radio and Director’s statement: Television of the University of Silesia I come from documentary cinema and while creating a fictional story I wanted to use my documentarian experience. I in Katowice, graduating with the short assigned the two main roles in Waves to two authentic girls who were entering maturity. Ania and Kasia stemmed their Our Bad Winter (Special Jury Prize at the Gdynia Festival). 2008 saw fictional characters from their own personal traits. Privately, the girls are close friends. Their strong bond was essential for him participate in a documentary course held at the Wajda School in me in creating a story which showed a world in which not everything works perfectly. A few years ago I lead a film workshop Warsaw. The film he made there,The Dog Hill (2010), took awards at for teenagers at one of Krakow’s culture centers. There I met the sixteen-year old Kasia, an exceptionally energetic girl. home and abroad. In 2012 he shot the short documentary Whistle, Kasia invited me into her world. I got to know her everyday life, situation at home, the hair salon which she interned and where she met her close friend Anna. With Kasia, we decided to make a short about her entitled Love Love. In it I portrayed produced by Munk Studio – Polish Filmmakers Association. Zariczny a very harsh and unfavorable world for two young adults who are thrown into faults that are not their won. Later, I decided walked away with the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2013. Waves is to “switch” this world into a fictional scenario and to think what two close friends could do to change their fate for the his feature film debut. better. The girls come from a world which is mundane, a place which no one is interested in. To me, this was not alright. This is why I decided to give them my undivided attention and unite forces to create Waves.

12 polish days pitchings

The Man with the Magic Inwardness Eloe Box Droga do domu Człowiek z magicznym pudełkiem

Bodo Kox 14 Grzegorz Jaroszuk 15 Piotr Złotorowicz 16

Fortnight Runaway Messiah Werewolf Poza sezonem Masakra Profana Wilkołak

Agnieszka Woszczyńska 17 Kristoffer Rus 18 Adrian Panek 19

Comrade Stalin Saved Through the Woods Volterra My Life Droga przez las Życie uratował mi towarzysz Stalin

Kamila Kubiak, Olivier Patte 20 Bartosz Warwas 21 Jacek Borcuch 22

13 polish days GENRE: Sci-fi Romance DIRECTOR: Bodo Kox PRODUCERS: Iza Igel, Roman Jarosz The Man with the Magic PRODUCTION COMPANY: Alter Ego Pictures PRODUCTION YEAR: 2017 BUDGET: 1 200 000 EUR Box WORLD SALES: Open PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Iza Igel, Roman Jarosz, Bodo Kox Człowiek z magicznym pudełkiem CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Iza Igel, [email protected], +48 501 338 454

In a not so distant dystopian future Adam (35) escapes from a poor part of Warsaw to New City. With the Bodo Kox help of a secret society, Adam gets a studio apartment in an old building and finds a job as a cleaner. At work, Adam meets Goria (30), a beautiful employee in the HR department. He feels an inexplicable bond Born in 1977. One of the most original forming between them, but she doesn’t treat him seriously. They start seeing each other and go to bed independent artists in Poland. Director, together, but Goria doesn’t want to commit. Meanwhile, Adam finds a radio from the 1950’s in a secret place scriptwriter, performer. He graduated in his apartment. He plugs it in and discovers that the radio broadcasts the past. By listening to the radio with a degree in journalism. Has Adam finds himself time traveling back to the ‘50s. One day he gets stuck in 1952. When he doesn’t show up completed courses at the Wajda School. for work Goria, realizing that she has lost true love, decides to find him at all costs. He studied Directing at The Film School in Łódź. He is numbered among the most Director’s statement: important and expressive authors of Polish independent cinema, where In my professional life I always follow intuition. The idea for this film fell into my lap straight from the universe, while I was he has gained the nickname of “off icon” and gained numerous awards. cleaning an old radio that once belonged to my grandparents. I thought what would happen if I plugged it in now and it His debut filmThe Girl from the Wardrobe, a transition from indie to started to broadcast music from its prime years. And in just a few moments I had a full story. Radio was always an important medium for me – I grew up playing with Lego blocks and listening to the Polish Radio. The broadcasts had an enormous mainstream, received many festival awards. The movie was selected influence on the development of my imagination, which allows me now to work in my beloved profession uninhibited. for the East of The West Competition in Karlovy Vary IFF.

Alter Ego Pictures – Polish production and distribution company. Their scope of interest covers art house cinema. In 2013, AEP produced its first featureFloating Skyscrapers by Tomasz Wasilewski. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won the East of the West award at the KVIFF. Films includeThe Man with the Magic Box, 2017 by Bodo Kox, Wild Roses, 2016 by A. Jadowska (in postproduction), Total Harmony by R. Jarosz, 2016 (in postproduction), The Pool, 2015 by K. Pawłowski, and Floating Skyscrapers, 2013 by T. Wasilewski.

14 polish days GENRE: Science Fiction DIRECTOR: Grzegorz Jaroszuk PRODUCER: Kamila Kuś Inwardness PRODUCTION COMPANY: MD4 PRODUCTION YEAR: 2018 BUDGET: 1 800 000 EUR Droga do domu WORLD SALES: Open PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Grzegorz Jaroszuk, Kamila Kuś CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Kamila Kuś, [email protected], +48 791 112 310

fot. Gregory Crewdson

The film is set in the near future, in Eastern Europe where the elderly are dominant in society. The film’s Grzegorz Jaroszuk main character is Michał (18). He is very ugly, thin, has protruding ears, buck teeth and his arms are much too long. He is the last young person in the place where the movie takes place. Michał is forced to support Born in 1982, graduated from the Łódź his family which consists of the eight people over 65 years of age. His whole family thinks Michał is dumb Film School. Talented director and and useless. One day, Michał is involved in a conspiracy which aims to establish a new country. Michał scriptwriter of all his movies. At the believes that he will become the most important person in the new country, and that this will be a good way moment Grzegorz is developing two to support the family. The establishment of the new country fails, but Michał from transforms from a naïve projects: Inwardness and The Story of boy into a mature man. The film is an absurd story which questions spirituality in the modern world. the Certain Sign. His feature debut Kebab & Horoscope premiered at Karlovy Vary. Director’s statement: His short feature Frozen Stories, premiered at Locarno and was also an For some time I’ve been searching for the starting point of a film which would allow me to raise the level of absurdity. The international success. He received a nomination for the European Film idea of placing the story in the near future and using references to the science-fiction genre came in very handy. Award and received a Pinifica Prize Award. Both films were presented I decided to work within the science-fiction genre in order to join all the elements that I’ve considered interesting. I think at many festival around the world and received numerous awards. that this genre will give me a wide range possibilities in showing modern society’s most severe problems. The increase of these problems might lead to a real catastrophe.

MD4 (Mental Disorder 4) – founded in 2011. In previous years, its founders collaborated with Zentropa Int. Poland (Antichrist dir. L. von Trier, Elles dir. M. Szumowska etc.) Agnieszka Kurzydło is the CEO. MD4 produced feature films such asBaby Blues by K. Rosłaniec (Crystal Bear, Berlinale), In the Name of by M. Szumowska (Teddy Award, Berlinale), Kebab & Horoscope by G. Jaroszuk (The Best Debut, Raindance), The Red Spider by M. Koszałka (The Best Film & FIPRESCI Award, goEAST). Our films have been very well received at many international festivals.

15 polish days GENRE: Drama DIRECTOR: Piotr Złotorowicz PRODUCER: Mariusz Włodarski Eloe PRODUCTION COMPANY: Lava Films PRODUCTION YEAR: 2018 BUDGET: 1 200 000 EUR WORLD SALES: Open PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Mariusz Włodarski, Piotr Złotorowicz CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Mariusz Włodarski, [email protected], +48 506 061 974

It’s hard to find friends in a small community living on an ex-State Agricultural Farm near an abandoned ex- Piotr Złotorowicz Soviet military airfield. In this social landscape Marcin’s (20) relationship with his father Emil (60) means the world to him. He wants to help Emil free their family horse farm from debts owed to the local mafia. To do Born in 1982 in Dębno, Poland. He this, he must take part in a prestigious Czech cross-country horse race. Unfortunately, Emil and Marcin lose graduated from the Electrical Engineering their best horse. His father decides to buy an uncontrollable mare, Eloe and tame her before the race. When Faculty at Szczecin University of he brings his older, long gone son Kuba (28) back to the farm, Marcin’s co-dependent relationship with his Technology and the Directing Department father topples over. From the very moment Kuba mounts Eloe, he is much better at taming her than Marcin, at the Polish National Film School in who has been training her for months. Unsure of his brother’s intentions, Marcin feels that he has to fight for Łódź. He directed several short films, his father’s love. including Charcoal Burners (2010) and Normal People (2011), both of which received critical acclaim and Director’s statement: won numerous awards. His diploma filmMother Earth (2014) was Eloe is a story about a world where cruelty is the best strategy for survival. Marcin is scared that the luxury of compassion premiered and awarded at the 67th Locarno Film Festival and has will cost him his father’s support. When he is infected with empathy, he is unable to suppress it. He unwillingly travels from traveled to 60 film festivals around the globe.Eloe will be his feature his father’s world of discipline to Kuba’s and Eloe’s world of instinct. After crossing this frontier he begins to question the debut. rules he followed thus far.

Lava Films – collaborates with filmmakers from Poland and abroad producing films bearing hallmarks of creative individuality, yet reflecting valid issues of our times. Believing that co-productions are the best answer to the needs of multicultural audience, Lava Films engages in international projects as the main or minor producer as well as conducts service productions. Their latest film,The Here After (dir. Magnus von Horn) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2015. Lava’s latest production, Piotr Stasik’s 21 x New York is out at festivals in 2016.

16 polish days GENRE: Drama DIRECTOR: Aga Woszczyńska PRODUCER: Agnieszka Wasiak Fortnight PRODUCTION COMPANY: Lava Films PRODUCTION YEAR: 2018 BUDGET: 1 300 000 EUR Poza sezonem WORLD SALES: Open PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Agnieszka Wasiak, Agnieszka Woszczyńska CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Agnieszka Wasiak, [email protected], +48 602 132 222

Anna and Adam, young married couple from Poland, spend a fortnight in Southern Italy. At the beginning Aga Woszczyńska of their stay, an accident happens. A man dies in front of their eyes. They observe the tragic event but they don’t offer help, they remain passive. Anna and Adam continue their stay in total denial. Yet, for how long Born in 1984 in Poland, Aga is a director, can they go without remorse? Slowly, they start to lose control over their lives. The feeling of guilt, at first scriptwriter and anthropologist. She rejected, subconsciously begins to reign over their seemingly stable relationship. They begin a painful blame graduated from the Directing Department game. Uncomfortable emotions come into play – they are new, difficult and ruin their foundations of safety at the Łódź Film School in 2014 with and convenience. Anna and Adam are trying to find their way in the new situation. They act instinctively, her filmFragments . She wrote and irrationally and aggressively, heading towards collapse. To Anna and Adam’s terrifying realization, the threat directed 10 shorts that have travelled does not come from the outside. It is rooted inside them. Growing anxiety destroys their sense of security festivals and were sold internationally. and paralyzing fear of true feelings makes them go back to pre-established patterns of emotional ignorance. Her aesthetics and directing skills brought her to Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes FF 2014 with Fragments. The film has been screened at over Director’s statement: 50 festivals and has won numerous awards. Aga is a Ministry of Culture I take my audience on a visually stylized, quiet journey into the collapse of a relationship, to speak about the condition of scholar and recipient of Discovering Eye Award for the most interesting thirty-something year-old Europeans, their emotional isolation, moral confusion and irrational fear that leads to fanatic emerging artist in US. Fortnight is her feature debut. isolation. Fortnight is a tale about alienation not only from each other but also from the world, about conformity and passivity of middle class where the need for safety and convenience is fundamental.

17 polish days GENRE: Black Comedy DIRECTOR: Kristoffer Rus PRODUCERS: Renata Czarnkowska-Listoś, Maria Gołoś Runaway Messiah PRODUCTION COMPANY: Re Studio PRODUCTION YEAR: 2017 BUDGET: 1 200 000 EUR Masakra Profana WORLD SALES: Open PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Kristoffer Rus, Renata Czarnkowska-Listoś, Maria Gołoś CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Maria Gołoś, [email protected], +48 519 822 465

The life of a saint is not an easy job… You can’t get wasted at an after work party, nor go dancing at a hip Kristoffer Rus night club. You can’t even flirt with a girl without upsetting the Catholic community. So what’s left to do? Pray and heal people all day long? Choosing Jesus as your savior can be a smart decision, but what if it is Born and raised in a Polish-Swedish Jesus who chose you? Christopher, a successful young marketing manager, finds himself face to face with… family. Kristoffer graduated from the the Virgin Mary. The apparition comes to him as a shock. Especially when considering that he’s not exactly Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts in a follower. As a matter of fact he’s more of a hedonist, shamelessly reveling in sex, drugs and other earthly Sweden and the Wajda School in Poland. pleasures. So, when the Virgin Mary informs him that he has to give up all of these things in order to serve He has directed festival-winning films God - the downward spiral is inevitable. Christopher loses his celebrity girlfriend, his job and eventually he like The Apple Tree (Audience Award at ends up on the street with a big dilemma to solve: shall he surrender to God’s will or try to revolt against it Gothenborg FF; Winner at Palm Springs and stay faithful to his profane lifestyle. FF; Official selection at Cannes Critics’ Week) andThe Big Leap (Palm Springs FF, Montreal World FF, Raindance FF). In addition, Rus has Director’s statement: created and directed several series for Polish and Swedish television. Many filmmakers are trying to capture the Zeitgeist or, as Andrzej Wajda would put it, to portray the hero of our time. He really feels at home when the humor gets black and the theme Poland (not only) is now a country of fierce conflict between the traditional value system based on religion and the value existential. system of the so-called Postmodern way of life. The dividing line runs not only between different social groups, but divides almost every one of us. Some would say that traditional religious values are the only alternative to a secularized world unconstrained by contemporary consumerism. The goal with Runway Messiah is to happily shake this paradigm.

Re Studio – film production company founded in 2011 with the goal of creating and developing films that might otherwise be deemed risky by traditional studios. The company assists artists, producers and broadcasters with every single step of the project execution – from the very first idea to the end of the production/distribution process.

18 polish days GENRE: Thriller DIRECTOR: Adrian Panek PRODUCERS: Magdalena Kamińska, Agata Szymańska Werewolf PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Balapolis PRODUCTION YEAR: 2017 BUDGET: 1 000 000 EUR WORLD SALES: Open Wilkołak PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Agata Szymańska, Magdalena Kamińska CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Magdalena Kamińska, [email protected], +48 601 980 737, Agata Szymańska, [email protected], +48 514 593 757

The summer of 1945. A provisional orphanage is created for 10 children that have just been liberated from Adrian Panek a concentration camp. The resolute protagonists regain strength and joy after the terrible time in the camp. But the terror returns. A group of hungry dogs trained to kill surrounds the orphanage… Born in 1975. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Wrocław Director’s statement: University, the Krzysztof Kieślowski The film uses the form of a thriller: the beauty and cruelty of the world surrounding the children, the contrast between the Faculty of Radio and Television at the enchanting summer, sun, forest and the dramatic events, sympathy, fear and the compassion that we feel for the young University of Silesia and the directors wild protagonists when we least expect it are the elements of the narration and style of this story. This is a true story program at the Wajda School. He is an though it resembles a dark tale. The story of a protagonist bitten by a beast that becomes a beast himself is an ancient and author of fiction and documentary films, universal motif of culture and a popular theme of horror cinema. music videos and screenplays. Daas was his feature fiction debut.

Balapolis – production company based in Warsaw, Poland run by Magdalena Kamińska and Agata Szymańska, a unique producer duo, two different personalities that complement each other perfectly. Balapolis specializes in feature films. We take an active part in the Polish and international industry to develop our company and film projects. Our recent feature filmBaby Bump premiered at the 72. Venice International Film Festival 2016.

19 polish days Donten & Lacroix Films - Belle Epoque Films - Blick Productions poland germany france

GENRE: Animation DIRECTOR: Kamila Kubiak, Olivier Patte PRODUCER: Maria Blicharska Comrade Stalin PRODUCTION COMPANY: Donten & Lacroix Films ESTIMATED PRODUCTION YEAR: 2019 BUDGET: 1 800 000 EUR Saved My Life WORLD SALES: Open Życie uratował mi towarzysz Stalin PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Maria Blicharska, Kamila Kubiak CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Maria Blicharska, [email protected], +33 699 308 517

Henio is a Polish child of Jewish origin who is deported to Siberia at the beginning of the WWII. What seems like a certain Kamila Kubiak death sentence turns out to be his salvation. His fate illustrates the stories of salvation of thousands of Polish Jews. This is a story of people whose lives were saved by the irony of history. Kamila Kubiak is a member of La Maison des Artistes of Paris and a member of Director’s statement: the authors society ZAIKS in Warsaw. She I was born in Poland – a country where the memory of World War II is present everywhere. In schools, in literature, in music made her first scenaristic experience in – simply everywhere. The Jewish aspect of that period was always close to me. It was obvious to me that the Jews who the advertisement industry. She won few lived on the Polish land after the war had been saved Anby the animationPoles, hidden in people’s film wardrobes, by betweenKamila walls, underKubiak the & Olivier Patté floorboards. I’ve never asked my grandfather how he survived. Maybe because he avoided the subject. Until I was 35. He internationals prizes for her professionals looked at me and laughed – You know, comrade Stalin saved my life. That answer came as a surprise. Stalin? How come? artistics projects. Olivier Patté Olivier Patté begin his career as a video art director in a design agency. He starts his freelance career and found a union called Moustache. For six years he developed as a director, art director and producer, many graphic projects ordered by famous companies. Now he starts his own animated and video concepts.

Donten & Lacroix Films – company established by Maria Blicharska and Monika Sajko-Gradowska in 2006 that is dedicated to producing high quality artistic films and aimed at an international audience. Provides film services worldwide.Comrade Stalin Saved My Life is a coproduction project with France (BLICK Productions / Maria Blicharska) and Germany (Belle Epoque Films / Nicole Ringhut).

20 polish days GENRE: Drama DIRECTOR: Bartosz Warwas PRODUCER: Maciej Szwarc Through the Woods PRODUCTION COMPANY: Film-Art Film Institution PRODUCTION YEAR: 2017 BUDGET: 850.000 EUR WORLD SALES: Open Droga przez las PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Bartosz Warwas, Maciej Szwarc CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Bartosz Warwas, +48 571 349 463, Maciej Szwarc, [email protected], +48 606 876 662

Through the Woods is a modern story inspired by “Antigone”. Just like the play, our film focuses on the clash Bartosz Warwas of two viewpoints that cannot coexist and result in a tragedy. A young football hooligan grows aware of his fascination with his sister’s new boyfriend. The fascination turns into desire – something that goes against Born in Kraków in 1978. In 2006 he his core beliefs. Unable to cope with his new discoveries, he falls into a sort of madness. moved to Łódź to study in the directing department at the famous Polish Director’s statement: National Film School. Before the school It is a story of young people without prospects: today they look for some ideas which they can focus on. We are witnessing expelled him (in 2014), he managed to a renaissance of interest in right-wing, mainly nationalist myths. The cult of physical force and violence as a means to solve make his master degree diploma film: problems, hatred against foreigners and police, drugs and the concept of honor. All this mixed in senseless, random. The a full-length feature titled Jaskółka film’s poetics reflect this state of soul: dynamic camera, rapid editing. Unrealistic scenes are the counterpoint: beautifully (The Caged Swallow). His films have been screened at numerous illuminated, filmed with a calm, almost static camera. international festivals and awarded in Germany, Spain, Italy, Taiwan, USA, Canada, Mexico and of course in Poland. In 2016 he became an alumnus of Berlinale Talents and also received a grant from the Nipkow Program in Berlin, whose aim is to develop Through the Woods.

Film-Art Film Institution – producer of Through the Woods, local self-government unit of culture, which focuses on promotion and dissemination of film art and culture. Since 2011 Film-Art has produced two feature films:Hiszpanka (Influenza) 2014, dir. Łukasz Barczyk and Żyć Nie Umierać (Life Must Go On) 2015, dir. Maciej Migas.

21 polish days GENRE: Drama DIRECTOR: Jacek Borcuch PRODUCERS: Marta Habior, Marta Lewandowska Volterra PRODUCTION COMPANY: No Sugar Films, Motion Group PRODUCTION YEAR: 2017 BUDGET: 1 500 000 EUR WORLD SALES: Open PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Marta Habior, Marta Lewandowska, Jacek Borcuch CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Marta Habior, [email protected], +48 603 486 287, Marta Lewandowska, [email protected], +48 600 457 010

At the foot of the town Volterra stands the house of Maria Linde – a Polish poet and Nobel prize laureate. Maria is Jacek Borcuch celebrating her 65th birthday with her family and friends. Silvio (her husband), Anna (her daughter), Guido Lodovici (the chief of police), Nazeer (her lover), the Artist ( the author of an installation on the market square in Volterra), and a New Filmography: Lasting – 2013, Poland, York Times journalist. Maria’s life follows the rhythm of this Italian province. Her good relations with her husband and Spain Sundance Film Festival 2013, daughter are disturbed by her unambiguous relationship with Nazeer, an Arab, who is 30 years younger than she is. Under International Film Festival Rotterdam the influence of dramatic events connected with Nazeer, her personal fears and the political situation in Europe, Maria 2013, All That I Love – 2009, Polish decides to make a public announcement the consequences of which she will have to deal with until the end of this story. Oscar candidate 2011, Sundance Film Chief Lodovici, motivated by personal prejudice the sources of which he seeks in Maria’s performance, starts his own private game, which is supposed to make the poet call off everything she has said. Under the pretext of being a law officer, Festival 2010 – World Cinema Dramatic unable to make the poet change her mind, he humiliates the woman by symbolically locking her up in a cage. The ending Competition, International Film Festival of the movie refers to the American poet Ezra Pound, who was locked up in a cage after the war for his sympathy towards Rotterdam 2010, Pusan International Film Festival 2009. Sold to over Mussolini and antisemitism. 20 territories including: France, USA, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Benelux. Tulips – 2004, Haifa International Film Festival 2005, Brussels Director’s statement: European Film Festival 2004, International Film Festival of India Goa The fall of the Roman Empire is invoked as a corresponding commentary for the escalating European crisis. It is only the 2004, FPFF Gdynia 2004, Polish Filmmakers Academy Award (Best background of the story which takes place in a Tuscan province, in a house near the old Etruscan town - Volterra. The subject of this film is Maria Linde, a Polish poet, Nobel prize winner, a moral authority. We watch Europe and the world Actress). through her eyes. Her close but not always clear relations with her loved ones slip away from the simple understanding of life. Her unyielding attitude evokes extreme emotions. We can either identify with her or reject her. Volterra is a story about family, love, longing, and fear of the unknown. It is a story, full of suspense, about life which cannot be reached.

No Sugar Films – focuses on projects which bring talented filmmakers together, whose goals are to make films in a collaborative way, becoming the new faces of European cinema. We believe that joining different cultures, outlooks and experiences adds value to any given project, which is why No Sugar’s main focus are international co-productions for international audiences. Our recent filmBaba Vanga by Aleksandra Niemczyk, a co-production with Bela Tarr’s Film Factory is presented in the Main Competition at this year’s edition of New Horizons. We are also finishing the post-production of a Mexican-Polish co-productionLa Habitacion and a Lithuanian-Polish coproduction Crisis.

22 polish days Works In Progress

Amok Another Day of Life I’m a Killer Jeszcze dzień życia Jestem mordercą

Damian Nenow, Kasia Adamik 24 Raúl de la Fuente: 25 Maciej Pieprzyca 26

The Forest Loving Vincent Office For Monument Las Construction Biuro budowy pomnika

Joanna Zastróżna 27 Dorota Kobiela 28 Karolina Breguła 29

Tiere Birds are Singing Game Count Zwierzęta in Kigali Pokot Ptaki śpiewają w Kigali Joanna Kos-Krauze, Greg Zglinski 30 Krzysztof Krauze 31 Agnieszka Holland 32

23 polish days GENRE: Thriller DIRECTOR: Katarzyna Adamik PRODUCER: Beata Pisula Amok PRODUCTION COMPANY: K&K Selekt Film PRODUCTION YEAR: 2016 BUDGET: 1 500 000 EUR WORLD SALES: Open PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Katarzyna Adamik, Beata Pisula CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Beata Pisula, [email protected]

A dead body drifts down a river for days, unnoticed. Fishermen discover it bound by a rope, mutilated and Katarzyna Adamik tortured. The sensational story is broadcast on the local news. Kacper Bala (5) watches in rapt interest. His mother Zosia Bala (25) pulls him away from the TV. Upstairs, Krystian Bala (25), a young aspiring novelist Raised in Paris. Graduated from the and philosophy student, tries to kill a girl in his bedroom using a rope and a knife. It is a murder scene Academy of Fine Arts in Paris and the from a novel he’s writing called “Amok”. During a philosophy lecture at his university, Krystian highlights prestigious Institute St-Luc in Brussels. articles about the murder victim . He calls the local police to ask if there are any new leads. At home, Stasia Her first professional experience was discovers that Krystian’s writing room is covered from floor to ceiling with photos of the victim, articles that of Agnieszka Holland’s (her mother), about the case, and grisly crime scene photos. Four years later the Wrocław Police Department receives an personal assistant on the set of The anonymous tip that the victim’s killer is the author of the self-published a book called “Amok”. In it are all Secret Garden (1993). She went on to the clues to solving the murder. Inspector Sokolski (47), newly hired by the Wrocław PD, takes the cold case work as a visual artist, a storyboard designer, for films made by her as his first assignment. Jack reads “Amok” and starts making important connections between the fiction of mother, such as Total Eclipse (1995), Washington Square (1997), “Amok” and reality. The Third Miracle (1999) and Shot in the Heart (2001). Bark, her first film as a director screened in the main competition at the 2002 Director’s statement: Sundance Festival and was shown at festivals in Moscow, Karlovy Vary Amok is based on the true story of Krystian Bala, an ambitious novelist who becomes the main suspect of a police cold case and Munich. Adamik’s name appeared on Variety’s ten most promising after it is discovered that his book “Amok” includes eerie details of a brutal murder. With his suspect in sight, Inspector Jack young talents of the season and she also received a favourable review Eagle Eye Sokolski takes on the cold case and soon discovers that with no motive, and very little evidence except for the from The Hollywood Reporter. Together with her mother, she started book, separating what is real from what is fictional becomes his biggest challenge when he enters the twisted and clever the production of Janosik (2009). She also started the television mind of Krystian Bala. series Prime Minister (2007), Pitbull (2008) and Marked (2009). In

2008 she directed, the Offsiders, awarded at numerous festival. K&K SELEKT FILM – created by Beata Pisula. Its first production wasThe Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler directed by John Kent Harrison (starring Anna Paquin, Marcia Gay Garden, Goran Visnjic). In 2010 the company produced the biggest historical TV series (13 episodes x 45‘) titled 1920 for the Polish public broadcaster TVP. War and Love (the story of three Great War veterans, three uniformed officers – three of Poland’s invaders, that are bound by fate on the battlefield in the last days of World War I). In 2011 it was one of the producers of Komisarz Alex (Polish format of Kommissar Rex). Currently K& K Film Selekt is in development of Decalogue – a 10 hours miniseries based on Krzysztof Kieslowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz’s Decalogue and it will be made with eONE as an international coproduction.

24 polish days GENRE: Animation/Documentary Hybrid DIRECTORS: Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow PRODUCERS: Jarek Sawko, Ole Wendorff-Ostergaard, Amaia Remírez, Raúl de la Fuente Another Day of Life PRODUCTION COMPANY: Platige Films, Kanaki Films PRODUCTION YEAR: 2017 BUDGET: 6 100 000 EUR Jeszcze dzień życia WORLD SALES: Indie Sales PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Jarosław Sawko, Damian Nenow, Magdalena Bargieł, Olga Cyganiak CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Magdalena Bargieł, [email protected], +48 698 604 180

Another Day of Life is a story of a reporter seeking the truth about war, who during a mortally dangerous Damian Nenow journey through Angola encounters situations and events forcing him to change his attitude towards work and life. The film’s action takes place during the three months Kapuściński spent in this war-torn country Directed 3 short animations including in 1975. During the expedition, the reporter realizes that he is a witness to events, the meaning of which Oscar shortlisted Paths of Hate (2010) requires him to go beyond the role of an observer. To recount the story of Angola, he will have to undergo a which was screened at more than 90 deep transformation himself. Another Day of Life (Jeszcze dzień życia), the book in which Kapuściński writes international festivals, winning 25 about his experience in Angola, bears witness to his rebirth both as a writer and as a human being awards. In 2013 he directed a spot Hunger is a Tyrant created in the frames Directors’ statement: of the United Nation’s campaign Zero Another Day of Life is a movie based on the book by war correspondent Ryszard Kapuściński. It tells the story of a Hunger Challenge. journalist, left to himself during the civil war in Angola on the advent of its regaining independence in 1975. Kapuściński is an idealist, a friend to lost causes and revolutions. In Angola Kapuściński experienced a dangerous journey into the heart Raúl de la Fuente of darkness which changed him forever. He left for Angola as a reporter to come back as a writer. He discovered that the honest and idealistic world he was seeking does not exist in Africa… and so he created it by means of a typewriter and Originator of the idea for Another Day became a writer of a world renown. of Life. His first full-length filmThe Last Nomads won the most awards for the best Spanish documentary in 2007. In 2015, his filmMinerita was shortlisted for the 88th Academy Awards as Best Short Documentary.

Platige Films – division of Platige Image, established to run film productions. Platige Image is an award-winning Polish post-production studio. It specializes in creating computer graphics, 3D animation, realization of digital special effects, and the compositing of images for production of commercials and feature films. Platige-produced a short animationThe Cathedral (dir. Tomek Baginski) which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2003.

25 polish days GENRE: Psychological Thriller DIRECTOR: Maciej Pieprzyca PRODUCERS: Renata Czarnkowska-Listoś, Maria Gołoś I’m a Killer PRODUCTION COMPANY: Re Studio PRODUCTION YEAR: 2016 BUDGET: 1 600 000 EUR Jestem mordercą WORLD SALES: Open PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Renata Czarnkowska-Listoś, Maria Gołoś CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Maria Gołoś, [email protected], +48 519 822 465

Psychological thriller inspired by true events that occurred in Poland in the early 1970’s. The story focuses Maciej Pieprzyca on a young police detective who becomes the head of police unit focused on catching a rampant serial killer of women. Director and scriptwriter, born in 1964 in Katowice (Poland), graduated from Director’s statement: the Political Sciences and Journalism I’m a Killer is a story about an average person entangled in a situation that is beyond his capabilities. It is not another movie Department of the Silesian University, about a serial killer, it focuses on a regular man that is placed in a difficult situation; one that might be too great for him Scriptwriting Department of the to handle. This problem and the reality which he lives in puts his weaknesses and ambitions to the test and pushes him Łódź Film School and the Directing towards a place where a hero could easily become an anti-hero. Department of the State Film School in Katowice. Received numerous awards for his documentary films, e.g. The Different, By Knock-Out(Turin, Tel Aviv, Cracow) as well as for his TV filmsInferno and Feast of St Barbara. He debuted in 2008 with the filmSplinters . In 2013 he directed Life Feels Good – one of the most successful Polish films in recent years, awarded at many international film festivals (Montreal World Film Festival – Grand Prix, Chicago IFF – Silver Hugo).

Re Studio – film production company founded in 2011 with the goal of creating and developing films that might otherwise be deemed risky by aditionaltr studios. The company assists artists, producers and broadcasters with every single step of the project execution -from the very first idea to the end of the production/distribution process.

26 polish days GENRE: Drama DIRECTOR: Joanna Zastróżna PRODUCER: Patrycja Ryłko The Forest PRODUCTION COMPANY: Pink Galapagos PRODUCTION YEAR: 2017 BUDGET: 500. 000 EUR Las WORLD SALES: Open PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Joanna Zastróżna, Patrycja Ryłko CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Joanna Zastróżna, +48 501 951 604, Patrycja Ryłko +48 791 709 872

The Gruff (Mruk), who is staying in the Village as a result of a mysterious accident, decides to finally abandon Joanna Zastróżna it and look for the City. On his journey, he is accompanied by the Girl (who sometimes acts as his daughter, sometimes as his wife, but no one knows who she really is). The Girl is an outlander, she operates outside Born in 1974. Lives and works in Sopot. the village structure and always follows her own paths… None of the permanent residents ever leave the Graduated from the Academy of Fine Village – it is covered in moss and mold, villains prowl the swamps, the lakes are flooded. It is simply not Arts in Gdańsk. She started working with allowed. It is all metaphysically congested and gives the impression of an outdoor psychiatric hospital. The photography in the 90s (series: Buba, Gruff and the Girl follow the Sun, they wander from East to West, across the swamp, through the wood Messenger), always going beyond the towards the Ocean, to the Desert. A horse joins them on the way. Much of this journey is a quest to find formal and semantic boundaries of its some answers as it finds an unexpected twist and reveals Gruff´s true story. format. She exhibited widely in Poland and abroad. Her works are in the collections of (among others) CCA Director’s statement: Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, the Museum of Art in Łódź. Her latest I’m interested in cinema, which moves on and around “the border” of artistic genres. The Forest is inspired by three different projects consistently turned into moving images and films. Her film texts: Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”, “Snail on the Slope” by the Strugatsky Brothers and “The Engraving” by Jacek short debut Molehill has been screened at Era New Horizons, Gdynia, Szymkiewicz. Each part corresponds with a different location, a kind of camerawork. But above all it is a record of human and Busan film festivals. existence. It is a dynamic model of man, an entity – the wizard, the creator himself, the characters confronted with their own selves through illusions, images and records of consciousness. After my filmMolehill I know that you can work with a small group of people, which favors intimacy. In intimacy you can find the truth and create the Forest.

Pink Galapagos – a new, independent, collaborative film production company mainly focused on art-house fiction and fantasy. It explores the boundaries between visual art and film by supporting an artist’s ambitious visions and transforming them into film. Our studio is based in Poland but our projects are (ideally) international co-productions and shot all over the world.

27 polish days GENRE: Animation/ Drama DIRECTOR: Dorota Kobiela PRODUCERS: Hugh Welchman, Ivan Mactaggart, Sean Bobbitt Loving Vincent PRODUCTION COMPANY: Breakthru Films/ Trademark Films PRODUCTION YEAR: 2016 BUDGET: 5 100 000 EUR WORLD SALES: Cinema Management Group

PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Sean Bobbitt, Dorota Kobiela CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Sean Bobbitt, [email protected], +48 601 297 600

Armand Roulin is given a letter by his father to hand-deliver to Vincent van Gogh’s brother Theo, shortly Dorota Kobiela following Vincent’s death. His search for Theo leads him to the paint supplier, Pere Tanguy, who tells him that the brother died shortly after Vincent, and recounts Vincent’s final days. Armand believes he may A graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts have misjudged his father’s friend, and really wants to know why Vincent chose the moment of impending in Warsaw and the Warsaw Film School, success to take his life. Armand journeys to Auvers to meet Vincent’s Dr. Gachet to find the answer, but the Direction Faculty. She has directed one Doctor is away. Armand resolves to wait, during which time the villagers tell him different theories of why live action short film,The Hart in Hand Vincent took his life and who is to blame. After investigating various rumours – including one that Vincent (2006) and five animated shorts –The was shot - Armand confronts Dr. Gachet, who puts all the theories of Vincent’s death into perspective for Letter (2004), Love me (2004), Mr. Bear Armand. This new understanding of Vincent’s story inspires Armand on his own life journey. (2005), Chopin’s Drawings (2011) and Little Postman (2011). Little Postman won Stereoscopic Best Short Director’s statement: Film at the LA 3D Film Festival, 3D Stereo Media (Liege), 3D Film & Loving Vincent is a combination of my love for painting, film and animation. It is also an expression of my personal passion. Music Fest (Barcelona). For her sixth animated short, Loving Vincent, While my own personal artistic development has been influenced by many artists, Van Gogh’s work has always been very Dorota aimed to combine her passion for painting and film. dear to me. It is the pure unfiltered reflection of the artist’s sensitivity and state of his soul. I wanted to delve deeper to understand who was this man who so fervently followed his artistic vision without compromise – despite the fact that following the trends of the day would have afforded him the appreciation of his peers which he so desired.

BreakThru Films – film company based in Poland and the UK. Their major productions have been the Oscar winning filmPeter and the Wolf and The Magic Piano. Additionally they have produced 12 animation shorts in different styles for the Chopin Shorts Collections, 5 live action shorts, and worked as VFX producers on the Edith Piaf biopic,La Vie en Rose. As well as the Oscar, their films have 35 international top prizes for Best Film, and also in categories of Cinematography, Stereoscopy and Technical Achievement.

28 polish days GENRE: Fiction DIRECTOR: Karolina Breguła PRODUCER: Aleksandra Wojtaszek Office for Monument PRODUCTION COMPANY: touchFILMS PRODUCTION YEAR: 2016 BUDGET: 56. 000 EUR Construction WORLD SALES: Open PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Aleksandra Wojtaszek, Karolina Breguła Biuro budowy pomnika CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Aleksandra Wojtaszek, [email protected], +48 601 792 376

A story about people who come from a town which no longer exists. Having no better place to stay they Karolina Breguła inhabit a deserted concrete complex situated in the middle of a vibrant city. However, this surrogate home is bound for demolition so the characters will soon have to move again. Constantly searching for something Born in 1979. Polish multimedia artist. which might represent their identity, they create an assortment of unusual objects. Gradually a museum-like Creates installations, happenings, video, collection, built around a factious narrative, begins to emerge. and photography. She has graduated from the National Film Television and Director’s statement: Theatre School in Łódz where she is This film depicts obsessive collecting habits of an elderly woman, employing absurd methods to obtain artefacts. In her currently working on her Phd. She has misguided belief that she preserves these items for posterity, I would like to raise oblique questions around collecting performed and exhibited in places such policies of museums, reflecting concerns of different interest groups. as the Venice Art Biennale (Italy), Jewish Museum in New York (USA), National Museum in Warsaw (Poland) and Zachęta National Gallery in Warsaw (Poland). She has received numerous awards including Views 2013, Samsung Art Master 2007, Polish Ministry of Culture Scholarship, Młoda Polska and Visegrad Scholarship.

touchFILMS – dynamic production company set up in 2011 with the idea of producing high quality content for cinema and TV. Based in Poland, it has produced films in Norway, Italy, France, Turkey, Israel and Scotland. A recent Belgian-Polish-French coproduction – the documentary Singing in Exile – has premiered at Visions du Reel (2015). The company’s first fiction featureOffice for Monument Construction has been supported by Polish Film Institute. The current line-up includes a coproduction with Les Poissons Volants Utopia of Images and Polish Express.

29 polish days GENRE: Mind-Game DIRECTOR: Greg Zglinski PRODUCERS: Katrin Renz, Stefan Jaeger, Bruno Wagner, Antonin Svoboda, Łukasz Dzięcioł Animals PRODUCTION COMPANY: tellfilm GmbH (CH), Coop 99 Filmproduktion (AT), Opus Film (PL) PRODUCTION YEAR: 2016 BUDGET: 3 000 000 EUR Tiere WORLD SALES: Open PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Greg Zglinski, Stefan Jaeger CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Stefan Jaeger, [email protected], +41 76 535 7415

A young woman called Andrea jumps to her death from the third floor of an apartment block in Vienna. Greg Zglinski A little earlier: the same apartment block is home to Nick, a chef, and Anna, who writes children‘s books. Anna thinks Nick has been having an affair with Andrea, but despite these suspicions she hopes that she and Born in 1968 in Warsaw, Poland. Finished Nick can rejuvenate their relationship.They travel to Switzerland, where they hope to perform this “reset”. the Pantomime and Acting School in Mischa, an art student, is looking after their apartment in Vienna while they are away. Anna thinks Mischa Zurich, Switzerland, where he has been looks like Andrea, and Anna also has a déjà vu experience in Lausanne. Soon the different levels begin to living for 15 years. Language studies in overlap and blur. Anna starts to wonder if she is going out of her mind. She senses that she has become Australia and France. Composer, guitar trapped in a different reality. Is it all a result of the car accident she and Nick had when they arrived here? and bass player in rock music formations. Is she just imagining everything? The talking cat – which was supposed to feature in her latest children‘s Film studies at the directing department book? at the National Academy for Film, Television and Theatre (PWSFTViT) in Łódź, Poland. Former student of Krzysztof Kieslowski. 2005-09 Director’s statement: member of the Zurcher Filmstiftung film commission in Switzerland. I feel drawn to this story in a magical way. The first time I read the screenplay I had the feeling that I had touched on the Works as a film director:Le temps d’Anna (feature film for Swiss TV secret of life and death. I had the feeling that the world is much bigger than we see and experience it in everyday life. RTS), Zbrodnia (TV Series for AXN Europe, 3 episodes, formatting I would like to pass on this feeling to the audience of the film. It’s a game with perspectives. Who is imagining whose director), Paradoks (TV Series, episodes 1-6 of 13, formatting director), existence? Or is he imagining somebody who is in turn imagining something else? Who is true? Who is really there? In Wymyk (cinema feature film) and others. whose head is this film happening? It’s the logic of a dream which evades our usual experience of perception.

tellfilm– founded in 1997 by Markus Kaeppeli and Stefan Jäger under the name of handsUP! Film Production. In 2007, the company moved their headquarters to Zurich. Shareholders are Stefan Jäger and Katrin Renz. Next to successfully producing several feature films and documentaries Big( & Little, Mathias Gnädinger – Die Liebe seines Lebens, Horizon Beautiful, Tatort: Wunschdenken, Hello Goodbye, Boxing Jesus) as well as documentary series for Swiss Television (Cyrill trifft, SF bi de Lüt – Schloss Biberstein, SF bi de Lüt – Das kleine Paradies), tellfilm has been developing several screenplays for the last few years. Meanwhile,Animals is in postproduction, Blue my Mind in preproduction.

30 polish days GENRE: Drama DIRECTOR: Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze PRODUCER: Joanna Kos-Krauze Birds are Singing PRODUCTION COMPANY: KOSFILM Budget: 1 200 000 EUR PRODUCTION YEAR: 2017 in Kigali WORLD SALES: Open PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Aleksandra Bielska Ptaki śpiewają w Kigali CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Aleksandra Bielska, [email protected], +48 501257019

Film tells the story of a Polish ornithologist researching the decline in the population of vultures in Rwanda. Joanna Kos-Krauze When the genocide begins, she saves the life of her Tutsi co-workers’s daughter. After arriving in Poland, the two women are incapable of leading a routine life. They try to get past their horrific experience. A story Director and screenwriter. Chairman of about friendship, forgiveness, and the power of nature. the Polish Directors Guild, member of the European Film Academy and the Polish Director’s statement: Film Academy. Expert of the Polish Film We hope that Birds are Singing in Kigali makes an attempt at healing. This healing takes place through articulation, through Institute, Silesia Film Fund, Gdynia Film the narrative, through language the meaning of which we have to learn anew, even though we lost confidence long ago. The Fund and Eurimage in Strasburg. Polish-African story becomes a mournful meditation and metaphor for the inexpressible. Human language, tained forever by hatred, yields, at a symbolic level, to the voices of birds to tell humans about human evil. Krzysztof Krauze (1953-2014) Director and screenwriter. Graduated in cinematography from the Łódź Film School. Author of multiple awardwinning short and feature films, documentaries, and TV movies. Films directed by Joanna and Krzysztof Krauze have collectively received over 250 awards.

KOSFILM – Polish film production company founded in 2013 by the author of multiple award winning feature films – Joanna Kos-Krauze. KOSFILM focuses on the independent production of art-house cinema and documentaries.

31 polish days GENRE: Mystery/Thriller/Dark Comedy DIRECTOR: Agnieszka Holland PRODUCERS: Krzysztof Zanussi, Janusz Wąchała Game Count PRODUCTION COMPANY: Studio Filmowe TOR PRODUCTION YEAR: 2017 BUDGET: 3 500 000 EUR Pokot WORLD SALES: Beta Cinema PRESENT AT POLISH DAYS: Agnieszka Holland, Krzysztof Zanussi, Irena Strzałkowska CONTACT DURING POLISH DAYS: Irena Strzałkowska, [email protected], +48 605 097 688

Duszejko, an eccentric retired construction engineer, an astrologist and vegetarian lives in a small mountain Agnieszka Holland village at the Czech-Polish border. One day her beloved dogs disappear. They cannot be found anywhere. A few months later on a snowy night Duszejko’s introvert neighbor stumbles upon the dead body of a poacher Director and scriptwriter, a FAMU (Prague living nearby. He has died under mysterious circumstances. The only traces are those of roe deer hooves film school) graduate, started her around the house… As time goes on, more grisly killings are discovered. The victims belonged to the local filmcareer assisting Wajda and Zanussi. elite and were passionate hunters. Duszejko tries to convince the local police force that they were murdered Directed over 30 features and TV films by wild animals. When another body is found after the costume ball, Duszejko becomes the main suspect. for the past 40 years. Her works were She was the last to see the victim. When the local parish house burns down and the priest and chaplain of produced in Poland, Germany, France, the local hunting association dies in flames, the police are almost certain they know who did it… Great Britain and the USA. Many of them received prestigious awards and nominations, among them: Emmy Director’s statement: Award, Golden Globe Award, Golden Lion Award, BAFTA and others. Our film can be called:No Country for Old Women. The main character is honest, passionate, generous, intelligent but also Three of Agnieszka Holland’s filmsIn Darkness, Europa Europa and mad. Mad with anger, obsessions, love for animals and with compassion for marginalized people. She is full of rebellion and Angry Harvest were nominated for an Academy Award (Best Foreign outrage. Amusing and irritating but also fascinating in her obsession. The genres are intermixed: psychological drama, an Language Film category). Her mini-series Burning Bush received ecological pamphlet, a pastiche-like yet tense crime story, a feminist vivisection. And something that will often be a type of among others 11 awards from the Czech Film Academy. She is a black comedy. The film is to be provocative. There is no moralizing or simple moral at the end of the story. We can always Chairwoman of the European Film Academy (EFA). think it was all just in the mind of the protagonist who is affected by an allergy to light..

TOR – founded in 1967. Since 1980 Krzysztof Zanussi has been its director. It has produced over 90 feature films, about 120 hours of TV series, miniseries and documentaries, as well as it rendered services for many foreign productions. TOR Film Production is one of the most well-known production companies in Poland and has co-produced many international film projects. The company co-operated with many famous film directors, a lot of films were awarded in Poland and abroad.

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